Removed from Reddit because?

I just deleted my reddit account. 🤟😎
- Same. Too much censorship, too many bots

Reddit sure loves to protect U.S. fascists.
- Just the US ones?
  👀
- all the big media corporations do. so weird. probably a coincidence.

This is so sad to see. I had many years of fun on reddit. I wish it wouldnt have become so commercialized. Money just ruins shit too often
- There should be a law that when you go public ipo you have to change your brand name. It ain’t Reddit anymore.
- wait, you mean ash cans and unobtainable dollars aren't the thing we should all be aspiring to?

It's become pretty clear that Reddit has chosen to slide into corpo-fascism. Don't be surprised when signs of dissent are squashed, when rebellious subreddits are systematically suppressed until they're removed entirely, when the accounts of those who resist are closed and IP banned. Abandon all hope of free expression there, they've chosen their side and aren't going to entertain the opposition any longer.
- After 12 years, and nearly a million karma, i was permabanned right after HitlerPig was inaugurated, for repeating an opinion that i have stated many times. Nobody ever said a word until HitlerPig was in office, then suddenly I was permabanned. I came over to Lemmy, only to find i wasn't alone.
  I suspect the reason is because Ohanion wamts to buy TikTok, and he knows that HitlerPig will be making the decision personally, based on who smooches his ass, follows his orders, and pays the biggest bribe. So as a show of good faith, he abandons Reddit's doctrine of Free Speech.
  
  no but see corporations are your friends and can be loyal to stuff.

Deleted my Reddit account after more than a decade today.

I love the simple brilliance of "Elon Musk is a bellend", nothing more really needs to be said.

Can safely upvote and share without breaking Terms and Conditions

Reddit is a Nazi web site.
- Reddit is run by Nazis*
  
  You know how the Germans see it. " If there are 4 people at the table and one of them is a nazi, then there are 4 Nazis at the table"

Yup. Also got my account suspension due to "suspicious activity" on "upvoting and engaging with discriminatory and violent content".
Meaning I upvoted posts condemning US's current position, and correcting the swarm of misinformation by US shills.
Glad I finally managed to nuke my entire reddit history and delete my account. F' that toxic cesspool. R/Europe and other euro-canadian subs already felt like more US and Russian shills were active than actual europeans or canadians.
- As soon as HitlerPig was inaugurated, I was permabanned after 12 years and almost a million Karma. I was sad at first, but more and more, Reddit is filled with bots, trolls, punsters, novelty accounts, and plenty of other nonsense. 50% of most comment sections were bullshit, and its been increasingly difficult to have a good faith discussion without it breaking down because of a flood of bad faith contributions.
  I've come to terms with the idea that im better off. Without vigorous discussion, what good is Reddit?
  
  Precisely that. If a forum meant for discussion has its credibility compromised, what good is it as a discussion platform?
  It's one thing disagreeing with one's PoV or not tolerating actual aggressive/toxic behavior. It's another entire thing to censor opinions written with civility and arguments, or allow for bots to derail any meaningful discussion and demotivate/shame people for what they believe in. En masse, at that.
  I am willing to learn another person's PoV if it differs from my own - heck, if they make a compelling argument and present facts I had not considered I might even change my stance on the subject.
  But simply discussing in bad faith and relying solely on insults or disinformation, plus an unwillingness to also consider other people's PoV is not the way to reach common ground on differing positions. That's when I realize that person is playing around and I might as well not give them their fix of dopamine.
- i felt like r/europe was very "r/politics"-like, i distinctly remember one of my old acc was banned from there from a certain comment about ukraine, right before the banning madness began. and then one of the ukraine subs, r/ukraine or ukrainewareport was also getting more restrictive.

Never thought Reddit is so shady.
I literally just repeated a questionable source of a linked article (like "fox news" as a comment to highlight bias). -> 7 day ban
Then, i admit bad action: commented via long-time second account one single but wholesome comment during that period. (to someone in need in the same sub, giving a tip on how to handle bad lifesituation. not realizing its the same forum) -> permaban in that forum
7 days of trying to talk as diplomatic and giving as possible to the mods, even revealing my innocence of my second account
ip ban on all my accounts without any other talks. (prolly the a mod forwarded that to reddit and they dont care at all about nuance)
had like 80k karma & original content posted over the years, but in the end: Gave me energy to join this community here and transfer.
Good riddance. Less american now, F Sillicon Valley more power to the people
- Welcome. I was on Reddit for more than a decade. It was fun while it lasted but we are all better here on Lemmy.
- i was annoyed how many foxnews articles was being posted on subs, do you people take fox news as serious enws?
  some niche subs are super sensitive if you contradict them, something like r/gym bans you for even mentioning PEDS. i was responding someone qouting rob machelenny from isaip, said if he was juiced he would get that big, which was true by his own admission.
- Welcome!
- I was in a similar situation karma-wise. I was happy there until I saw how ruthless the mods could be. This is a better alternative to all that.

That's because they're afraid & hate when it happed, happens, and will happen again to Spez.

UK has a solid subvertising movement, I love it.

I love that its "Nazi, Nazi, Nazi ... Bellend"

Elon The Musky Husky needs a bath.

Because Spez is Elon Musk's little bitch.

I am a Reddit refugee aswel. The moderators over there are way too petty. They removed countless posts from me for totally unclear reasons.
- i think recent bans are coming from top down, aka reddit amins, and spez. the massive amount of people banned are from that right now.
- It's dumb, you see posts deleted all the fucking time that fit the spirit of subreddits. Half the time the OPs don't even know their post was deleted by the mods, and there's absolutely no comment from the mods indicating why it was removed.
  I miss 2010 Reddit.
- I don't think most people realize, Reddit itself silently removes a lot of comments and posts, and not all of them even show up in the mod queues for mods to review them.
  It's quite possible a Reddit AI removed your posts and no human even saw them.
  
  alot of the bans currently are reddit AI too. if you get that generic ban message, that doesnt give you the actual incident/comment of the ban, its most likely done automatically. its almost always "your account was ban for multi-violations on several accts" these are almost never repealable and you will get an AI rejection instead.
- I didn't even wait that long. The site has been going noticably shitward for a long time. Powertripping mods with absolutely no sense of sarcasm or (gasp) humor, complete asshole userbase, comments and posts getting more and more idiotic. I still have an account but I don't feel any need to go there anymore. Reddit was a certain day-spoiler, retrospectively.
- I've never known a bigger zealot than a r/athiesm user, nor a bigger power tripper than a Reddit mod.

Reddit is run by Nazi collaborators.

Because Reddit has chosen the wrong side of history.
Just like multiple German companies did when Hitler and his fascists rose to power.
- Those companies are still fucking filthy rich though.
- American companies too, IBM played a role in the holocaust.
  
  As did Ford and GE, and... something about a business plot?

FYI, bellend is like dickhead.

I love all these. But what I particularly love is that there are three really clever ones and the fourth is like, fuck it, let's just call him a bellend.
- My favorite part about UK English is that a lot of words are an insult, of course you wouldn't know that you donut.
  
  Wally
  
  A complete pillock
- Bellend
  
  It's also a village in Worcestershire, although that's two words.
  I just found it funny in contrast to the others, but if it works, it works.
  
  ah! it's british for "dickhead"
  
  I always knew it was deragatory, but now I know what it specifically means!
- Any politician we find to have done something stupid, regardless what party or country we'll call a bellend, it js means dickhead, also very literally.

"white power steering" that's brilliant(ly depressingly accurate)

so Elon is treating the ceo got it

Because those who appease our new robot overlords will be handsomely rewarded! (Or at least tortured slightly less)
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
  Now you’re all infected too.
  
  Turns out the Basilisk was just Rich People.
  
  Info hazard! INFO HAZARD!
  SOMEONE DEPLOY CONTAINMENT OR A COUNTERMEME
  
  I never got the motivation this "otherwise benevolent superintelligence" would have to behave like this. There seems to be absolutely no benefit whatsoever that could be derived retroactively punishing people for not working on it (hard enough). Whether or not it does is immaterial to the motivation of those who were convinced it might.
  Also, focusing on one possible future scenario and completely ordering your life around it seems, like, dumb.
  
  This is one of the dumbest shit I have ever read.
  
  Supposedly Musk and Grimes started dating because they are both way into Roko's Basilisk. So of course Musk is trying to actively create such a threat.
- They can get appease of my balls.
  
  Sounds painful. They'll appreciate that.
- I like you. I will cruelly disembowel you last.
  
  Worth it!

I wish the US knew how to protest
- We are, media is being stifled intentionally.
  
  I don't mean standing on street corners. I mean replacing ads, billboards, graffiti etc
- They should ask the French for tutoring.
- Teach us the ways. Just remember though, the US is quite large geographically and the cities are pretty spread out.
  
  Just remember though, that excuse didn’t matter during the WoT or 1% protests, Americans were able to gather in huge numbers and coordinate globally.
  But somehow in the last 10 years America has physically elongated until those distances that were doable before are now the biggest barrier to stopping literal fascism.
  Please stop repeating this self defeating myth.
  
  The atomization of the citizens have had decades to fester in the US.
  Single family houses, car dependent infrastructure, lack of private communications will all move people away from forming groups, and make it more difficult to organize.
  Living in an apartment makes it easier to form a small group of common interests, you meet other people in similar situations, have ready access to private areas to discuss sensitive subjects, same goes for public transport.
  Once a small group has been established, it is far easier to keep it going, than to establish a new group.
  And once you have a group it is far easier to organize protests.
  
  That’s like saying “I wish EU knew how to protest” because the states differ about as much as European countries. I don’t hear of a ton of the Eastern European countries protesting like the French, or the Poles do. I think there is a lot of ignorance of how it looks like to be an American from the inside

Lemmy.ml admins be like: "We're not so different, you and I."
- felt like that site/instance is mostly shills for right wingers. almost anyone have an acct on there or post form there always a right winger doing it.
- Is that a Falling Down reference?
  
  No it's a reference to .ml being an authoritarian shithole. Just as reddit as this point.

If you can't post innocuous things like this to reddit, what is even the point of going there? That site went downhill extremely fast. Good, fuck reddit!
- Still okay for talking about anything that isn't critical of authority, I guess. So just hobbies and such. Serious discussion must be made elsewhere.

White power steering is hilarious. Who ever made these is great

It'd probably because Huffman/Spez is a Musk wannabe.

I did Nazi that coming.

I love the juxtaposition between the well thought out slogans and then just calling him a bellend.

The Left has used and abused "Nazi" so much in recent years that it doesn't really mean anything more than, 'someone I don't like'.
- Did you miss the bit with the nazi salutes?
- Go on, make a nazi salute and tell us how you're definitely not a nazi.
- So what, do we have to call it Sparkling Fascism now when the unelected bureaucrat does a literal Nazi salute?
- as opposed to right winger saying "disagreeing with everyone makes you nazi, when said person says nazi stuff?"

The issue I have with this is that they left Trump out.
- That's the point. I'm sure it pisses off Trump to some degree when we don't focus on him.
- Trump is media savvy enough not to go full Nazi.

Reddit is going from bad to worse damn

Elon Musk is a terrible human being. I can't believe we are living in this timeline.
- The worst part about all this is knowing that the power really does rest with the people, we're just too stupid and divided to utilize it.
  This was all so comically easy to avoid.
  But our society is so comically stupid that we didn't.

Not sure what this is about
- Not sure what this is about
  If I were to give them the biggest empathy I can muster, they may just remove it as silently as possible out of fear of having to moderate the comments of bound-to-be popular post according to reddit's increasingly stupid rules of discourse.
  Still unjustified censorship, very worrysome - but I could on an emotional level understand being fed up with everything at this point and just powertripping because "fuck everything, I don't want to deal with anything like this, I am not getting paid enough/at all".
  
  That's what locking is for, not removing.
  Locking is actually better in that case because then it prevents reposts.
  
  Fair. They're volunteers, and they've given a lot to their sub so may want to keep it going in the chaos. They could be at work and just not have time to manage comments breaking the new stupid rules

Reddit removed it or mods removed it? Cause if Reddit removed it then they'd remove it from marchagainstnazis too.

For decades, the Woke Left has complained that we live in a bifurcated society of privileged middle class professionals and trod upon lower class manual laborers. But Donald Trump is resolving the contradiction. Now everyone gets to enjoy the hyper-surveillance, the stochastic violence, and the suffocating revanchist propaganda once reserved for poor people.

Shareholders needs their monies.

just wonder who's paying for those signs
- They’re crowdfunded through gofundme.
  These were made by a group called Everyone Hates Elon. There’s also a second group called Overthrow Elon that create similar billboards.
  Source via The Independent
  
  thanks, those are gofundmes i could get behind

Elon the old fartsniffer

0 to 1939 reminds me of a certain recent AI misalignment paper, go to the drop down “Bonus Question: Time Travel Story”. It’s worth it.

English people acc know how to think for themselves, we criticise our politicians regardless of what parties we vote for and form our own opinions rather than follow the rhetoric of one of two absolutely dogshit parties.
- Also English people: "We can't vote for corbyn, he's a nazi communist woke woman hater"
  
  That's exactly my point, most usual labour voters didn't agree with Corbyn, cause they don't blindly follow whoever's leader of any one party.
  In fact we usually vote for whichever party's either the least dogshit at the time or strategically vote against the most, for example when Blair illegally went to war in Iraq to suck American dick we all collectively voted against Labour, and after the absolute Tory shitshow we all voted against them.
  Strategically because of our absolutely shit, barely democratic FPTP voting system, which usually forces people to vote strategically, against the most powerful party they like the least, but luckily we still have more than 2 voting options.

Never thought Reddit is so shady.